Window channel



C. F. SCHLEG'EL wINDow CHANNEL Filed'Aug. 6, 1934 Nov. '427, 1934.

IN VEN TOR ATTORN Y framed Nerv. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES Y 1,982,074- lwirmow CHANNEL Carl F. Schlegel, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to The Schlegel Manufacturing Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application August 6, 1934, Serial No. 738,642

6 Claims.

This invention relates to window channels such as are used for guiding or mounting window glass, whether xed or movable, especially in vehicles, such, for example, as automobiles, motorboats,

I and aircraft.

. An object of the invention is to provide a generally improved and more satisfactory window channel.

A nother object is the provision of a.window l channel of attractive appearance which can be manufactured relatively cheaply and easily.

To these and other ends the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the. novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic cross section through a window channel constructed in accordance with one embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 isfa similar view showing a slightly different embodiment;

' Fig. 3 is a view of the form of channel shown in Fig, 2, on a somewhat larger scale, illustrating it placed in a window i'rame in normal position for use; l

Fig. 4 is -a side view of the structure shown in Fis. 3;

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic plan of part of the lining material used in the window channel, and

Fig. 6 is a cross section through the material in Fig. 5.

. The same reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

36 The window channel comprises a suitable structure formed into channel shaped-or generally U-shap'ed cross section so as to embrace one edge of a window glass or the like. I'he channel shaped structure may include a channel shaped 40 member having a bottom 1l and side walls 12, and

this member may be of any suitable known form, either rigid or flexible. Forexample, if it is of the rigid variety, the portions 1l and 12 may be made of sheet metal. A 'This channel shaped body is provided with a lining formed by one or more piecesof woven textile materialwhich may be cemented, clamped, riveted, or otherwise amxed to the channel shaped body; In Fig. l, the lining is shown as formed of threeseparate strips, a bottom piece 15. lying against the inner surface of the bottom portion 11 of the channel body, and two side pieces 16 each lying along the inner surface of one of the j' side walls 12 and wrapped around the outer edge of its side wall and extending back some distance on the outer surface thereof as at 17. 'I'he textile strips 15 and 16 are cemented or otherwise suitaglly secured to the walls of the .channel shaped b y.

In Fig. 2, there is 'shown a slightly different 60 form, in which the textile lining is in a single strip instead of three separate strips, the single strip having one portion 25 lying on -the bottom of the channel and two side portions 26 lying against theinner surfaces'of the side walls 12.l 65 In this embodiment, the side walls l2 are doubled back upon themselves at 13 and the side portions 26 of the textile material, after being folded around theouter edges of the channel, have their edges 27 tucked in between the'portions 12 and 70 i3 and clampedthereby. When the textile material is held in this manner, the cementing of it to the u-shaped bodymayA be omitted under some circumstances.

In whichever form the channel maybe cons tructed, it is ordinarily used by being placed in a vgroove. or rabbet of a window frame 30, indicated diagrammatically in' Fig. 3, with the outer edges of the channel usually somewhat exposed. as shown in that-figure.

According to the present invention, the textile material is mainly of non-metallic strands (cotton or linen, for example) but it has woven into it, as an integral part thereof, one or more warp strands of metallic wire, placed in the textile material in'position to run substantially along the outer edges of one or both side walls of the channel. Preferablyy several such wires may be employed along each edge, such wires being shown'diagrammatically at 35 in Figs. l and 2, 90 and also being indicated by the same numeral in Fig. 3, in which, for the sake /f contrast, the metallic wires 35 are shown of somewhat larger size than the other or non-metallic` warp strands. Actually Vthe wires may be of the same size as .95 other warp strands, or larger or smaller than them, las desired. Ordinarily it is preferred, however, to have the wires somewhat larger than the non-metallic warpstrands and to have s everal wires side by side adjacent each other, without any non-metallic warp strands interposed between them, so that they will show up well and give a decorative metallic appearanceto'the exposed forward edges of the channel.

A fragment ofthe-tenue lining material, laid 1o5- out at, is shown diagrammatically in'Fig. 5, in which the metallic warp strands are shown plain, and the non-metallic warp strands and wett strands are shown somewhat stippled, for the sake'of contrast. It will be seen from Fig. 5 1.10

that the metallic warp strands as a group show up well, and this is true of the actual article l 4made in accordance with this invention..`

The metallic warp strands may be of any suitable kind of wire, conveniently beingmade of wire manufactured from what is commonly .known as stainless steel, which has and which will retain a bright, shiny appearance. Various compositions of stainless vsteel are well known in A lthe metallurgical art and need not be given in deof the'channel and hold them in true alinement,

this being particularly useful when the channel body is quite flexible rather than rigid or semirigid. Thus nov metallic bead running along the 'edge of the channel, as used in some prior constructions, is needed on the present channel, in which the wire warp strands give adequate stiff.- eningand decoration without the expense and added weightof the bead.`

If desired, the wires may be enameled lor otherwise colored to harmonize with the other interior trim of the' vehicle on which the channels are to be`used, or to carry out any desired scheme of color decoration.

The channelis providedv with cushioning means for cushioning the glass embraced by the channel, which, cushioning means is preferably woven into or onto the textile material toyform an integral part thereof.A While the cushioning means may be of any suitable known form, it is ordinarily preferred to make it in the form of relatively long stiff pile, as disclosed, for example, in Schlegel Patent No. 1,847,700,'granted March 1, 1932, and the cushioning` meansin the present 'instance isl illustrated diagrammatically assuch long stiff pile, there being one line 41 of such cushioning pile running along the bottom interior surface of the channel and other lines 42 thereof, one on the inner surface of each side wall of the channel.

I claim:

K, 1, A window` channel comprising a textile porv vtion formed of warp strands and weft strands in# 'Itv . U-shaped member, a lining of woven textile maltallic wire woven into and forming a part of said any v suitable terwoven with each other, said warpstrands including a plurality of at least partially visible strands of metallic wire. Y

2. A window channel comprising a generally U-shaped body including a woven textile portion l having a plurality of warp strands of metallic wire running substantially along one edge of said U-shaped body. c

.3. A window channel comprising a generally channel shaped `structure including a strip of 8 textile material having warp strands and weft strands interwoven with each other, a plurality of adjacent warp strands being of metallic wire. and'being located in position to run substantially along anl outer edge of oneside wall of said chan- 9 nel shaped structure. y n

4. A window channel comprising agenerally U-shaped member, and a lining of woven textile material applied to at least a part of the interior surface of said member and wrapped around an 9 outer edge of one side wall thereof, said textile material including a warp strand of metal running substantially along said outer edge.

5. A window. channel comprising a generally terial applied to at least a part of the interior surface of said memberand wrapped around an outer edge of one side wall thereof, said textile material including a pluralityv of strands of me-` 10 textile material in position to run along said mag terial substantially at. said edgel around which said material is wrapped, and cushioning means formed on and woven integrally with saidv textile material for cushioning a window embraced by 11 said channel. I `6.115 window channel comprising a 'generallyy U-shaped member, one or more strips of woven textile material forminga lining for the interior `surface ofj said member and wrapped around the 11` outer edges ofthe side walls thereof, and warp strands of metallic wire woven into said textile material and running alngfthat part oi.'k said' A material which is wrapped around said outer edges to lend a decorative appearance tothe outer 12 -edges of the channel.

- CARL F. sommen.. 

